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Jared Leto is set to star in and executive produce a new standalone film based on his Suicide Squad character, The Joker.

No plot details are known about the film nor is there a writer or director attached, but the film will be part of Warner Bros idea to expand on the world created by Suicide Squad; a film based on Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn – Birds Of Prey – has already been announced.

Leto famously had words for Warner Bros after they cut a substantial amount of his Joker scenes from Suicide Squad but then later admitted that he didn’t watch the film himself – not due to bad reviews or negative press but more because he wants to avoid ‘subjectivity’ towards the films he’s starred in.

‘As soon as you watch it, that’s when it becomes subjective,’ the actor said, revealing that he doesn’t watch the majority of his films, including Dallas Buyers Club, which he won an Oscar for.

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Warner have a game plan for their DC Comics adaptations, with another Joker movie also in the works.

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The second film reportedly has Joaquin Phoenix attached to star and will fall under an Origins banner.

Joaquin is reportedly interested in the Joker film (Picture: Getty)

Those films will allow the studio to tell new stories based on the same characters but with no overlap with their current DC Extended Universe (DCEU) which includes Ben Affleck’s Batman, Henry Cavill’s Superman and Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman.

Aquaman, The Flash, and Cyborg films are all also in the works under the DCEU banner.